Baseball caps and birkenstocks meets Beethoven and Brahms. Here’s a look at the Bangor Symphony Orchestra’s behind the scenes rehearsal performance.
The BSO recently started a “Sneak Peak” series; tickets at reduced prices and an informal rehearsal setting. The series let’s people see the work that the symphony and the conductor do before the big show, as well as ask questions at the end in an “Inside the Actor’s Studio” sort of way.
Here we see guest conductor Lucas Richman rehearsing pieces of Beethoven’s Consecration of the House with the symphony.
IMPORTANT: To watch in HQ, click the link above, it takes you to the YouTube page, then just click on the link immediately below the video on the right side that says “Watch in High Quality”.
Recorded with my Flip Mino HD camera. Edited in iMovie and uploaded to YouTube.
If you compare this video to the Catch Phrase video below, even when viewed in High Quality on YouTube, there’s no comparison, the Vimeo video quality is far superior. Even considering that the lighting is much poorer in this video, making the overall quality lower to begin with, YouTube compresses it to hell and it looks like ass. YouTube High Quality certainly helps, but I Vimeo is the way to go.
So I got myself a Christmas present this year, a Flip Mino HD video camera. It’s a pretty sweet little gizmo, and I’m very impressed so far with the quality. I think I’ll start posting a random, weekly, HD video. I’ve signed up for a Vimeo account and that let’s me upload 1 HD video a week (for free) but I can’t embed them in my blog HD. To see the video in HD you’ll need to go here. I’ll probably upgrade to a paid account so that I can upload and embed as many HD videos as I want. But for now, here’s my first Flip Mino HD / Vimeo upload. Watch it below or watch it in HD on my Vimeo page.
